SintonFan
03-08-2009, 10:47 PM
Article(from USAtoday.com):
Even chickens hate daylight saving time
By Al Neuharth
March 7, 2009
By Al Neuharth • March 7, 2009
When daylight saving time returns Sunday, you can add another category of its critics. Chickens.
Centi Thomson of Canaveral Groves in Cocoa, Fla., has written me to complain about what this foul extra hour of early morning darkness means to her fowl.
""They won't lay their eggs in the dark, so we have to hook up a light in the chicken house. Then we can't let them out for their morning run in the dark because the raccoons get them. You need to start a campaign to get this time change stopped," she wrote.
So chickens join parents of school-age children, farmers, city folks with early morning jobs and many others who agree with Benjamin Franklin that ""early to bed and early to rise makes a man (actually he should have said everyone) healthy, wealthy and wise."
Tinkering with our time clock started in World War I as an alleged energy saver. It was repealed after the war, re-enacted during World War II then repealed again. But it became a peacetime part of our lifestyle in 1966.
Since then, it was in effect from April to October until Congress compounded the felony in 2007 by making it run from March to November. Lobbyists for the late night crowd, especially owners of bars and clubs, pushed the extension.
President Obama pledged that lobbyists will not run Washington during his regime. He's off to a good start. He should wipe out the lobbyists-created early morning darkness by abolishing DST altogether.
That extra hour of morning daylight would be a strong stimulus for his recovery plan because most of us use morning hours for work and evening hours for play.
Getting rid of DST would give most people — and chickens — something to crow about.
Al Neuharth is founder of USA TODAY.
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Funny article.
:thinking: :D
Even chickens hate daylight saving time
By Al Neuharth
March 7, 2009
By Al Neuharth • March 7, 2009
When daylight saving time returns Sunday, you can add another category of its critics. Chickens.
Centi Thomson of Canaveral Groves in Cocoa, Fla., has written me to complain about what this foul extra hour of early morning darkness means to her fowl.
""They won't lay their eggs in the dark, so we have to hook up a light in the chicken house. Then we can't let them out for their morning run in the dark because the raccoons get them. You need to start a campaign to get this time change stopped," she wrote.
So chickens join parents of school-age children, farmers, city folks with early morning jobs and many others who agree with Benjamin Franklin that ""early to bed and early to rise makes a man (actually he should have said everyone) healthy, wealthy and wise."
Tinkering with our time clock started in World War I as an alleged energy saver. It was repealed after the war, re-enacted during World War II then repealed again. But it became a peacetime part of our lifestyle in 1966.
Since then, it was in effect from April to October until Congress compounded the felony in 2007 by making it run from March to November. Lobbyists for the late night crowd, especially owners of bars and clubs, pushed the extension.
President Obama pledged that lobbyists will not run Washington during his regime. He's off to a good start. He should wipe out the lobbyists-created early morning darkness by abolishing DST altogether.
That extra hour of morning daylight would be a strong stimulus for his recovery plan because most of us use morning hours for work and evening hours for play.
Getting rid of DST would give most people — and chickens — something to crow about.
Al Neuharth is founder of USA TODAY.
.
.
Funny article.
:thinking: :D